Remorse: A Christian Perspective

Though the Christian church has a well-developed theology of Godward-facing remorse about sin it has paid little attention to the interpersonal implications of the remorse that people feel when they wrong one another. Since the nineteenth century important work has been done by psychologists anthropologists philosophers ethicists scientists and lawyers that has implications for the way theologians might think about remorse. This book draws on the biblical record in its ancient settings as well as on insights from contemporary scholarship to offer a new and distinctively Christian contribution to an understanding of remorse.